Bloom’s Taxonomy

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Table of Contents • Historical Background• The Three Domains• Bloom’s Levels of Questioning• Are you ready to “Bloom”? Historical Background • In the 1950’s, Benjamin Bloom and a team of college researchers developed three levels of educational activities. – Cognitive– Affective– Psychomotor • After focusing solely on the cognitive aspect, Bloom created his famous taxonomy. Cognitive • The cognitive domain involves knowledge and the development of intellectual skills. • This includes the recall or recognition of specific facts, procedural patterns, and concepts that serve in the development of intellectual abilities and skills. Affective and Psychomotor • growth in feelings or emotional areas (Attitude) • manual or physical skills (Skills) Bloom’s Taxonomy Knowledge • Observation and recall of information• Knowledge of major ideas and subject matter • Question Cues: List, Define, Identify and Examine. Comprehension • Understanding information• Interpreting and translating knowledge • Question Cues: Summarize, Contrast, Predict, Interpret and Discuss Application • Problem solving and use of knowledge • Question Cues: Demonstrate, Calculate, Solve, Classify and Experiment Analysis • Seeing patterns in order to organize and identify components of information. • Recognizing and identifying hidden meanings • Question Cues: Analyze, Classify, Compare, Explain and Infer Synthesis • Use old ideas to create new ones• Make predictions and generalizations. • Question Cues: Compose, Design, Generalize, Formulate and Integrate Evaluation • Compare and discriminate between ideas• Verify value and recognize subjectivity of information. • Question Cues: Assess, Decide, Measure, Judge and Recommend Are You Ready to Bloom? What level of Blooms Taxonomy does each question represent? • Describe in your own words Bloom’s Taxonomy. • Create a question from the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. • What do you think about applying Bloom’s theory in your own classroom? Bibliography • http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html • http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/bloom1.html • http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Bloom/blooms.htm